Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Simon Gommers (1889-1967)

Day of marriage June 11, 1917

• The temperature on June 11, 1917 was between 13.0 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Day of death April 5, 1967

• The temperature on April 5, 1967 was between 1.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
  • March 12 » Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
  • June 2 » Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
  • June 26 » Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
  • July 23 » Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
  • November 29 » Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Herbert Johnston, British runner (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (b. 1879)
• 1967 » Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)
• 1968 » Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer